Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1887-10-06
COMMUNICATED,
EDITOR TELLER:

Oltentimes the only means to defeat
a lust cause are false schemes and william
GUS trickery. 1t is needless to say that
annexation has been delayed and thus
lar defeated only by such means. We
need not go back further than the last
session Of congress, when the comsumma-
ton of all the villianies was wrought
against US. Up to that time our cause
had progressed, Notwithstanding the
basest opposition, so far as to convince
congress that it WIS just and that our
prayers should be granted only by the
interposition OF fraudulent representations
did it at last fail of accomplishment.
The governor, while pretending to
represent the whole territory, had NO
just right to take it upon himself the
disposition Of the political rights of a
whole body Of citizens !; his action shows
,onclusively that he represents only the
Southern portion Of the territory at
whose beck and call he stands q willing
subject. But the dead past must bury
its dead, and We must turn to meet new
dangers that already bcset us, and stand
firm upon the issue till we fight its last
battle.
Mr.. Dubois, delegate in congress, by
the grace Of North Idaho, whom he mis-
led into his support by what are proved
to have been false promises, is now
swinging around the circle, ostensibly to
enquire after the needs and wishes Of
the people, but really, as is being reveal
ed, to find some method for thwartiug
our one wish our only need and for
some excuse, poor though it be, for
the violation Of his pledges not to oppose
us. So he goes about with the self
conscious air Of an embrygotic.. statesman
seeking the precocious interview whereby
be may ventitate his splenetic forces, 10
the puerile twaddle of au irato dema,
gogue, charging upon our people the
engaging in Vaccinations for the ami
hilation Of South Idaho; this should be
branded, most emphatically, once for all /,
most infamous misrepresentation.
Never has there been any purpose upon
our past to engage In any plan or scheme
inimical to the South in its political
relations. So far as we are concerned
it must stand or fall upon its own merits
or dement's. We presume congress
would accord it the Same consideration
and heed the wishes Of its majority, as
VIC have received. What difference does
MIR. Dubois see between a promise not
to oppose annexation, and one "to rep
resent to congress and to any committee
of that body" the wishes of the people
Of North Idaho on that question, which
he knew to be uppermost in their hearts?
What is it to represent the wishes OF a
people? Surely it is not to make war
upon their plans and as sure is it no
to sit idly by, aud let enemies work out
the deep damnation of their vile plots.
Take him at his own language, the least
you can make Out Of his present posi-
ton; is tho character ola man, salf.
convicted of official dishonor, standing
with broken words, whose false fras
ments betray to an outraged people, u
faithless and unworthy servant. He as
serts, without offering proof, that there
is an unholy alliance between Stewart
aud Voorhees,, whose ultimathule is
nothing short Of the blotting out of
Idaho. He stops not to consider that if
this is done with the consent Of the
people justice and righteousness fills all
her waste places. Who shall dare say
then, that these men stand upon un
hallowed ground? The North has asked
Washington to take her. Mr. Voorhees,,
true representative as he is, makes hol
reply of welcome; he has right 10
speak, and when suffering people is
betrayed within its own walls, where else
may i. look for aid but to samaritans
from other lands. Mr.. Dubois says that
conditions having changed, he must
break faith with us. What safety,
ask, is there ever then in placing con-
fidence in man, when conditions, over
which we have no control and to which
we are strangers, are constantly occurring ?
The conditions to which he refers have
no part iu, nor relation to, the affairs of
North Idaho. All We ever asked of the
South was to let us alone we now
purpose to treat her with equal consider
alton, and would ask Mr.. Dubois to care
fully avoid working up false impressions,
by even insinuating that we have any
scheme of interference with her rights
for the right.
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